First meeting for development of the Spider Cafe. 15 April. 11.00 am

Present: Mikayla, Lily, Lexus, Will, Stephen, Mackay, Zac, Marijke, Alex, Kayley, Eliza, Jenner, Callum, Flynn, Oliver, Alex D, Mrs Morgan, Mrs Baker.

Minutes:
*Business plan discussed
*Executives for company voted on : Marijke and Zac
*SWOT done
*E-mails sent to restaurants.
*Discussion over contacting share holders
*Callum to investigate a logo for our company.
*Mackay to investigate good recipes with his Dad.
*Lily to try out some brownie recipes.
*Kayley to make recipes independently.
*Marijke to investigate making flyers.
*Will, Lily and Lexus to investigate recipes for drinks.
*Alex to do a survey at his cousins birthday to see which food is most popular.
*Small survey carried out: Discussion over sales. Most popular food items were pizza, chips, sushi, lasagne,apples.
Most popular drinks were: raro, milkshakes or smoothies, fizzy drinks, spiders, hot chocolates.

STRENGTHS OF OUR BUSINESS:
*We work well as a team.
*We will have lots of children and teachers as customers hopefully.
*Good contacts like restaurant owners, bankers, family who are awesome cooks, people that work in newspapers.
*We are at school already so don't need to hire a place
*Back up power in the hall.

WEAKNESSES:
*We don't know how to cook.
*We are not safe around sharp knives or hot things. We will need more adults/older children
*We have no money yet.
*We've never run a restaurant before.

OPPORTUNITIES:
*We already have a kitchen in the hall.
*We are doing kitchen chemistry in our normal classes next term.
*Bringing in experts.

THREATS:
*Politics between members of our group that could come up (Executives now appointed)
*Avonlea Dairy across the road.
*Beauvais cafe.
*Staveley Street Shops.
*Lone Star Cafe

Meeting closed at 2.58pm

Business Plan is enclosed here.

Thanks for your expertise in business planning with us Mrs Baker!!

Business Meeting for Spider Cafe: 6 May

*Hinton's Restaurant visited. Questions related to business answered
*Change of name for business discussed. Small survey showed that the name 'Spider cafe' was not attractive to customers, even those who love spiders.
*Agreement on the name 'Le Cafe De Celebration' as this cafe will celebrate with parents what we have learned about running a business.
*Menu to be sorted next week.
*Letter written to Mr Levings re: giving us a business loan of $250.00.
*Job descriptions to be given out re employment of staff.